GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |